Julia - a novel

By sylviec

A NOVEL POSTED IN CHAPTER PARTS

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julia 2

By sylviec on Sun, 30 Jun 2019

The train has stopped and I have only just noticed. We are at Portsmouth and Southsea. The man opposite checks his watch and huffs. He does a lot of...
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Julia chapter 2 part one

By sylviec on Mon, 01 Jul 2019

Chapter 2 Valerie ‘Are we taking a little off the back this time?’ The hairdresser lifts Valerie’s hair slightly with a comb to indicate the proposed...
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Julia chapter 2 part 2

By sylviec on Mon, 01 Jul 2019

to admiHow could God make two sisters so different, and how was it that despite all the things that Valerie had, the cars the holidays, the houses,...
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Julia rest of chapter 3

By sylviec on Mon, 01 Jul 2019

It wasn’t something polite people spoke about of course but when Brian made it plain that his desire was for a ‘full relationship’ she knew straight...
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Julia end chapter 3 plus chapter 4

By sylviec on Tue, 02 Jul 2019

The man left and she closed her eyes. She was desperately tired, as if her whole life had been lived in the space of a few hours. One moment she was...
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Julia chapter 4 contd

By sylviec on Tue, 02 Jul 2019

She could still see the wall even when there was a person standing in front of it. Staring at it for so long had imprinted its image on her mind and...
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Julia chapter 5

By sylviec on Wed, 03 Jul 2019

‘Your hair has grown back fast Mrs.Mitchell.’ The hairdresser assesses Valerie’s hair in the way only a hairdresser could, as if it is something...
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JULIA Chap 5/6

By sylviec on Wed, 03 Jul 2019

They all look around the houses and then say they are going to think about things. Rubbish! They just want a free trip to the country and to be on TV...
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Julia chapter 6 contd

By sylviec on Wed, 03 Jul 2019

Even Geoffrey might suffer her wrath now it was known he had become entangled with Brian. Her mind drifted back to the room and she told herself to...
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Julie chapter 7

By sylviec on Thu, 04 Jul 2019

Valerie looked at the envelope she’d brought back from Cove House. The exterior said nothing revealing about its haunting contents and the only...
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Julia chapter 8

By sylviec on Thu, 04 Jul 2019

It’d been three weeks since Julia visited the hospital and discovered Lilly gone. She’d stopped searching for her friend, but it left her with an...
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Julia chap 8 contd

By sylviec on Thu, 04 Jul 2019

Julia just stutters ‘Oh my god.’ The local news was full of the story, how the girl had jumped, how the hospital was at fault, how they couldn’t name...
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Julia chapter 9/ 10

By sylviec on Fri, 05 Jul 2019

Valerie was alone. The house was empty. She watched from the conservatory window as the pink and gold of the dying sun washed the sky with its...
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Julia chapter 11 / 12

By sylviec on Fri, 05 Jul 2019

herThe window is open and a breeze strokes the curtains with a lover’s touch. The sea softly beats on the shore in the bay below the house like the...
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Julia chapter 12/13

By sylviec on Fri, 05 Jul 2019

Julia looks at me with a resigned face. ‘What you do about your relationship with Geoffrey is up to you, it isn’t my business.’ ‘What about Brian?’...
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Julia chapter 14 / 15

By sylviec on Sat, 06 Jul 2019

Valerie left the following morning. She gave me a sisterly hug but I didn’t manage to return it in time to give her the reassurance she was seeking...
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Julia chapter 15 / 16 / 17

By sylviec on Sat, 06 Jul 2019

She looked above the clothes rail for the suitcases, and they were gone. Geoffrey had stripped the place bare and taken all the suitcases, not just...
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Julia Chapter 17 / 18

By sylviec on Sat, 06 Jul 2019

. I’m in luck and cutting the address panel from the original I paste it onto the fresh one so that it looks like a printed label. Fixing a stamp to...
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Julia chapter 19 / 20

By sylviec on Sun, 07 Jul 2019

I have begun to sketch mother. I’ve decided my study will be called ‘Julia’s mother watching TV.’ Why not stick to the obvious? As agreed, I do not...
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Julia chapter 20 / 22

By sylviec on Sun, 07 Jul 2019

Chapter 20 ‘She be alright when they work’ she reassures me. I watch, and a part of me wonders what it would have been like if I’d left her and she’d...
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Julia Chapter 22 contd / 23 / 24

By sylviec on Sun, 07 Jul 2019

Mother cannot or still does not want to see the truth but she has to know. ‘It appears that Geoffrey was involved in all sorts of dodgy deals and...
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Julia chapter 24 contd / 25 / 26

By sylviec on Mon, 08 Jul 2019

One of the things I’ve learnt recently is that Geoffrey is a different person to each and every one of us. I have my thoughts about him, you have...
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Julia chapter 26 contd / 27

By sylviec on Mon, 08 Jul 2019

I just love the clues Van Eycke put into his pictures but Hockney’s portrait stunned me when I was young and impressionable, those pastel colors and...
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Julia chapter 27 contd / 28

By sylviec on Mon, 08 Jul 2019

Doing things, saying what other people wouldn’t say. I suppose it was good for once to think I was being accepted for who I was.’ ‘Good answer Julia...
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Julia chapter 28 / 29

By sylviec on Tue, 09 Jul 2019

Perhaps I can use it to my advantage. When she's like this she drops her guard and speaks honestly, if harshly. ‘When the police came to see you...
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